"The Master"

Joaquin Phoenix stars as a drifter who becomes the right-hand man to the leader of a cult, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, that begins to spread across the country. Loosely based on the rise of Scientology, the film was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

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